How AI changed the bargain between platforms and users
As Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others license their users’ posts to train AI, the internet’s extraction phase is accelerating
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How the tech industry soured on employee activism
When social justice protests swept the country in 2020, tech companies mostly welcomed employee activism. The Gaza demonstrations are getting a much different reception
Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
ChatGPT gets an emotional upgrade
OpenAI’s forthcoming voice assistant laughs, flirts, helps — and draws a sharp distinction with Google
Inside OpenAI’s new plan for fighting deepfakes
The company has new strategies for shoring up our shared sense of reality. Will they matter in the election?